An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

Music composition and improvisation together encompass the spectrum of creative decision-making that shapes musical works. Composition often unfolds through iterative planning, notation and reflection ...

There is no doubt that we live in challenging times. But challenges can also lead to opportunities and lessons about how we might live our lives differently. Referencing the life-changing moment in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has made us all improvisers. Medical researchers raced to develop vaccines. Students and teachers adjusted to online classes and socially distanced learning. Collectively, we ...

The premiere episode of Play It By Ear will debut in September 2022, with the following episodes arriving biweekly. Spun off from the popular Game Changer episode, The Official Cast Recording, Play It ...

Magnet Theater presents The (Virtual) New York Musical Improv Festival from July 14-18, 2020 on their virtual stage at twitch.tv/themagnettheater/. Tickets are available for purchase to help keep the ...

Learn how to create an improvised musical comedy complete with songs, characters, and stories in the style of Broadway. Nonprofit collective Baltimore Musical Improv presents an immersive weekend ...

“The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before,” the late writer, actor, coach, and comedy raconteur Del Close — a Second City legend who trained most the ...

Ahead of their performance at Windmills Craftworks on June 5 and 6, contemporary Indian fusion band Lakkshya is returning to ...

Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...